What do you class as wildlife?

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I ask only because I want to enter Digital Photographer of the Year and one of the sections is 'Wildlife.' Say I took a stunning butterfly image but the butterfly was photographed in a butterfly house, would you class this as wildlife?

I've skimmed through the terms and conditions and there doesn't seem to be any need for specifying (from what I've read) that its a captive animal.

Your thoughts please :D

Thankyou!
 
For me, it's anything thats not a pet/tame/in a zoo!
 
Wild should at least be native or a natural migrant to the country in which it is photographed, we have a lot of escaped foreign captive stuff in this country now like the mink and those ringneck parakeets. I think the rules of wild aren't as black and white as they used to be anymore.
 
Personally I would class a butterfly farm the same as a zoo. The butterfiles are captive bred and reared, so not wildlife.
 
Something that isn't owned, so no pets, farm animals or zoo creatures (as well as butterfly farms).
 
squizza said:
Say I took a stunning butterfly image but the butterfly was photographed in a butterfly house, would you class this as wildlife
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Anything you would post in the wild & free forum...!


MD
 
For me an animal which has not been tamed or grown for food and that lives in an environment similar to its natural habitat.
So a flee or a water buffalo in reservation (of adequate size) are wildlife.

But this is for what I'd consider existing as wildlife.
A tamed lion in a case is still wildlife in a sense because its nature is to be wild.
It does not have the millennia of cohexistence with humans that farm animals an pets have.

A great photo is a great photo, people should not forget it. But there are no constest for "the best photo", there are restrictions, they should just make them clear.
 
I disagree tbh, wild has to be out of captivity, most competitions don't accept zoo animals as wild either, especially if they have been passed off as wild, just look at the photograph of the wolf jumping over a gate that caused such a fulore recently. :)
 
[sarcasm] The clue's in the word. Lives in the wild.[/sarcasm]
Farmed animals, whether they're native breeds or exotics are NOT wildlife.
 
Personally I would have bigger objection to falsely claim an action, than whether the animal is in the wild or captive (even if a very proper captivity).

So if you setup the shot to have a certain action, tempering with animal behaviour, you are not capturing wild behaviour. (Things like positioning food or foreign objects).

Either shot is fine, as long as its a nice shot, the problem would be if you claim something that is not true.
 
anything in the wild which doesnt rely on human help for food or shelter
real natural living
 
mrcrow said:
anything in the wild which doesnt rely on human help for food or shelter
real natural living
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What about a fox that lives in the wild but steals food from humans when they are asleep? :)
 
mrcrow said:
anything in the wild which doesnt rely on human help for food or shelter
real natural living
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That would pretty much sum up my thoughts too, native or an introduced [accidently or by migration], as long as it is free to come and go as it pleases, then its wildlife imo. That doesn't mean you can't, in some cases, use a little persuasion [birds using a garden feeder is the obvious scenario here] in limited circumstances as long as the animal is still free to do as it wishes. So a butterfly house? Nope, captive in my book.
 
The Wolf jumping the gate shot, wouldnt have caused such a furore if it had been notified as a captive animal, it would still have been entered, but in a different category, its the fact he claimed it was wild (ie not captive) was the problem.

Any creature that is born/bred/feeds itself with no interference from man and is not confined in a cage or building (have to be careful as some safari parks in Africa could technically be classed as enclosed, but the animals are still wild and free)

Thats how i see it anyway. Best bet would be to check with the people that run the competition, and get veirification of the rules, and definition. That way you cant be caught out :)
 
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